Godzilla vs. Kong proves how Mike Dougherty’s ancient Godzilla prequel idea can work in Legendary’s MonsterVerse. Back in 2019, the Godzilla: King of the Monsters director expressed interest in making a Godzilla BC movie. Such a story would obviously call for the MonsterVerse to abandon modern technology for an ancient setting.
Dougherty’s hopes for a Godzilla BC movie are just one of several ideas that may or may not be on the table for a future MonsterVerse installment. For the time being, it’s not clear what Legendary Pictures. Reportedly, it’s rumored Godzilla vs. Kong sequel is a Son of Kong story, but that hasn’t been confirmed. Other options that may be under consideration are a Godzilla vs. Destoroyah adaptation, a proper Godzilla-Kong team-up, Kong 2, and a modern-day Titan War. Out of all the possibilities that have been discussed, Godzilla BC may have seemed the most unlikely. After all, it would be completely different from anything Legendary (or Toho) has ever done with Godzilla.
Interestingly, Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong created a blueprint for how Dougherty could pull off Godzilla BC. Arguably the biggest issue with the concept is how it would make humans irrelevant. They could still be present in the story of course, but without technology, their impact on the Titan themselves would be severely limited. Since there’s not much they could do against a Titan with arrows and spears, their importance would be greatly reduced. Normally, that would sound like a major obstacle to Godzilla BC ever seeing the light of day, but Godzilla vs. Kong revealed just how unessential the humans really are. The movie proved that Godzilla BC can minimize the role of the humans without its story suffering.
Godzilla vs. Kong’s human cast wasn’t received that well, but that hardly held the movie back. Much like the situations with previous movies, the human characters were regarded as rather forgettable additions to the story. But despite all that, Godzilla vs. Kong was a box office hit and a huge success for HBO Max. The movie was easily able to take the attention away from the humans and focus exclusively on the monsters for minutes at a time. The journeys of both Godzilla and Kong managed to hold viewers’ interest on their own, thus demonstrating this long-held notion that the monsters are the true stars in Godzilla movies.
For Godzilla vs. Kong, the humans existed to advance the stories of the two titular Titans, and that’s exactly the purpose they should serve in Godzilla BC. What the humans do in the movie ultimately won’t matter – and that’s not a problem. By exploring what the world was like before the Titans went into hibernation and what Godzilla was up to thousands of years ago, a Godzilla BC movie would certainly have the potential to deliver a thrilling and enjoyable experience.